Daily Calendar for Friday, January 24, 2025

Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister) – 1965
George Cukor (film director) – 1983
Vincente Minnelli (film director) – 1986
Thurgood Marshall (first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court) – 1993
Jay Monahan (legal analyst for NBC News) – 1998
Bob Russell (creator of the Miss America Pageant and Name That Tune) – 1998
Chris Penn (actor) – 2006

Gold nuggets discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, triggered the California Gold Rush – 1848
“Typewriter copy ribbon” patented by Jacob L. Wortman– 1888
Patent 1,404,539 granted for the Eskimo Pie (now Edy’s Pie)– 1922
Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island, NY– 1925
Percy Spencer granted patent for microwave oven– 1950
Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 crashed in Canada’s Northwest Territories, leaking radioactive waste– 1978
An otter entertained crowds all winter at the mouth of the Ompompanoosuc River in Norwich, Vermont– 1981
Apple Computer, Inc. introduced the Macintosh personal computer– 1984
The Voyager 2 spacecraft sent back photographs from the planet Uranus– 1986
Rover Opportunity landed on Mars– 2004
A blizzard that took over New England with blinding snow and blustering wind kept the Cape Cod Times from publishing a print edition for the first time– 2005

The temperature in Browning, Montana, plunged 100 degrees in 24 hours, from 44F to -56F, establishing a U.S. record for a 24-hour temperature drop.– 1916
Fifteen degrees below zero F in Nashville, Tennessee– 1963
4 inches of snow fell near Lake Jocassee in South Carolina– 1991
North Myrtle Beach experienced a low temperature of 16 degrees F– 2003
Thirty-eight inches of snow on Cape Cod after a 2-day winter blizzard– 2005